IBM Announces 64-bit PowerPC Chip

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IBM has plans to produce a 64-bit PowerPC chip late next year, sources close to the company said. The PowerPC 970 is what IBM will call the single-CPU variant of its RISC Power4 architecture.

The chip will debut at around 1.8ghz, which is much faster than the current Power3 architecture chips, which tops out at 375mhz. IBM has not yet announced which companies will be using the chip, but I think it's safe to assume that Apple will jump on it right away.

The downside, is that, as usual, Apple will be late in delivering. AMD is expected to ship their Clawhammer chips early next year, based on the x86-64 architecture, and will run at a much higher clock speed (we've already reported that it will start at a 3400+ PR). So, what may be Apple's saviour, may just arrive too late.

Tough luck, Apple.
 
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Apple never ever sold any Macs with Power3 chips.

Why are you commenting on PowerPC chips and the Mac platform when you nothing about it? Seriously, please talk of things you know in the future, or... look like a fool
 

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huh?

1990 - POWER (32-bit POWER, multichip)

1992 - POWER (32-bit POWER)

1993 - PowerPC 601, 602? (modified 32-bit PowerPC)

1994-5? - A30/Muskie (64-bit Amazon, 64-bit PowerPC, multichip)

1994 - A10/Cobra (64-bit Amazon, 64-bit PowerPC)

1995 - POWER2 (32-bit POWER, multichip)

1995 - PowerPC 603, 604 (32-bit PowerPC)

1996 - PowerPC 603e/604e (32-bit PowerPC)

1996 - POWER2 SC (32-bit POWER)

1997 - RS64 (64-bit Amazon, 64-bit PowerPC, 32-bit PowerPC)

1998 - PowerPC 750 (32-bit PowerPC)

1998 - RS64-II (64-bit Amazon, 64-bit PowerPC, 32-bit PowerPC)

1999 - POWER3 (64-bit POWER, 32-bit POWER, 64-bit PowerPC, 32-bit PowerPC)

1999 - RS64-III (64-bit Amazon, 64-bit PowerPC, 32-bit PowerPC)

2000 - POWER3-II (64-bit POWER, 32-bit POWER, 64-bit PowerPC, 32-bit PowerPC)

2000 - RS64-IV (64-bit Amazon, 64-bit PowerPC, 32-bit PowerPC)

2001 - POWER4 (64-bit Amazon, 64-bit POWER, 32-bit POWER, 64-bit PowerPC, 32-bit PowerPC)

2002 - POWER4-II [expected]

2003 - PowerPC 970 (64-bit PowerPC, 32-bit PowerPC, AltiVec)
 
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Sorry. It wasn't totally inacurate, just the fact that Apple was/is using Power3 chips. I have corrected myself and removed the fact that apple was using it.
 

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